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  1. haha. Slashdot only supports ASCII, so yes, it is US-centric.

  2. Re:hu-person-made surely? on This Machine Produces the Largest Humanmade Waves In the World · · Score: 1

    man(manMann) is just like sound/sound (Gesund/Geräusch) or ear (Ohr/Ähre). You won't educate anyone. words change meaning over time, noone can halt it. And unfortunately taboos change languages too throwing good words out of the language coney/puss/beaver were are ruined by the same taboo. It won't end - thes taboos will destroy more and more words from the language......

  3. Re:Show Me Something Made with C Nanotubes! on IBM Scientists Find New Way To Shrink Transistors · · Score: 1

    The researchgate article has the following Most products using CNTs today incorporate CNT powders dispersed in polymer matrices or deposited as thin films; for commercialization of these products, it was essential to integrate CNT processing with existing manufacturing methods.

  4. Re:"with a 2048 bit RSA key" on Patreon Hacked, Personal Data Accessed · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the article We protect our users’ passwords with a hashing scheme called ‘bcrypt’ and randomly salt each individual password. Bcrypt is non-reversible, so passwords cannot be “decrypted.” We do not store plaintext passwords anywhere..
    No passwords were compromised.

  5. Re:"with a 2048 bit RSA key" on Patreon Hacked, Personal Data Accessed · · Score: 2

    Passwords should NEVER EVER be stored on a server for two reasons - they can be viewed by the admin who knows the key, and they can be viewed by the thief who steals them. Password hashes should be stored with salts. These can NEVER be reconstructed by anyone.

  6. Chop it smaller like in Thai cooking.. on Scientists Discover How To Get Kids To Eat Their Vegetables · · Score: 1

    so that the pieces are too small to separate - your just eat it all in one spoon/chopstick/forkfull.

  7. Re:Why does this API exist? on Advertisers Already Using New iPhone Text Message Exploit · · Score: 1

    this is probably just using IPhone URL Schema to make an sms: URL, just like a mailto: URL, and no I don't think they can click send - that can only be done within the message app.

  8. Re:Not really VR on Facebook Finally Delivers On the VRML Dream With Immersive Star Wars Video · · Score: 1

    that's ok. Myst was a great game in the 1990's where you couldn't move around in a 360 degree view. Today's games render from any location. In another 20 years we will have real time rendering from any location. What we have now with this movie is the personal VR experience of being on that ship flying across the desert.

  9. Re:The Science In a SciFi movie... on What Ridley Scott Has To Say About the Science In "The Martian" · · Score: 1

    if I told you where the seeds and fertilizer came from then i would be spoiling the story - three times. But I will say that the story does describe adequately where the seeds came from, where the living soil came from and where the fertilizer came from. Hint: Andy Weir spent ages using his constant acceleration (2mm/s/s) orbital software to find a date in the future when the the 31 day mission would be on Mars during Thanksgiving day.....

  10. Re:It's not just about going to Mars on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    Yes, and you start crawling because you WANT TO RUN!! No baby wants to crawl, they want to be like their siblings and parents. Let's keep talking about Mars.
    These are the same arguments of the 15th Century, but Da Gama, Columbus, Magellan and Cook were not deterred (two of whom were murdered mid-trip, but are still famous for what they achieved!). Their trips were years long with NO communication and NO map. I am inspired by them and not their detractors.

  11. This guy... on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    .... is simply not made of the right stuff.

  12. Down with all the new East India Companies! on Technology Colonialism · · Score: 1

    nt

  13. If I turn the page of an ad in a magazine.... on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 1

    ... without looking at or or mute an ad on television or alt-tab away from a youtube ad to ignore it, or perhaps just close my eyes, put my fingers in my ears and shout "lalalalalalala" does that mean I am a pirate or thief or ripper?

  14. Re:send it anyway on Apple To FBI: Encryption Rules Out Handing Over iMessage Data In Real Time · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't they be seizing and searching the person, not Apple?. If I write an encrypted letter with pencil and paper and send it via the Post (or an encrypted drive by Fedex), should they have to concern themselves with transporting encrypted data?

  15. Cyclists die where i live.. on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    ..because drivers are texting in and veering into cyclists. Don't just make this rage against cyclists. All players have to be careful, and it doesn't matter who makes the mistake - the cyclist will suffer the most.

  16. Re:The street will become half as wide on London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" · · Score: 1

    Streets will always fill to congestion, no matter how wide nor narrow. Just look at LA. This now puts pressure to move traffic to bikes. A good idea.

  17. Re:Still surprised Cali put plastic in their water on How California Is Winning the Drought · · Score: 1

    Those balls are polyethelene with carbon to make them black. What toxins are you expecting?

  18. Re:Not white on Researchers Demonstrate the World's First White Lasers · · Score: 1

    You have tri-color cones in your eyes. So this is white as far as your human eye can see.

  19. Re:What? on Researchers Demonstrate the World's First White Lasers · · Score: 1

    you forgot a new battery technology or graphite breakthrough!

  20. Re:Crooks are afraid of the dark, too on Britain Shuts Off 750,000 Streetlights With No Impact On Crime Or Crashes · · Score: 2

    The town I live in has 25,000 people and NO street lights. It is wonderful!

  21. Re:I see theyre using the Step 2 profit model on Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    you also forgot releasing sulfur, mercury and uranium into the atmosphere....

  22. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Google's Niantic Labs Sorry Over Death Camps In Smartphone Game · · Score: 1

    portals are not supposed to be in schools, but all the schools in my area are saturated with portals that school kids there have set up.

  23. Just hope.... on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    ..that no-one in your contact lists is a secret pedophile or selling stuff on silknet....

  24. Re:Taxi licenses are crazy expensive on Uber France Leaders Arrested For Running Illegal Taxi Company · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uber has to do these checks anyway before they are allowed to take the drivers.
    The "bad days" of unregulation were long before the digital age - we have better ways of checking these people now, including star ratings within the Uber app - if the driver doesn't have 5 stars, just reject them.
    The goal shouldn't be so that taxi drivers can make a living, but rather that people can get from A to B how they want.
    The fight here is about cronyism, protectionism and the scam of making taxi drivers pay $200,000 blood money to be able to drive in Quebec, Melbourne, etc. I have talked to taxi drivers in Melbourne who hope that they can sell their license when they retire so that they can retire.

  25. Re:Because titan has ice, pluto isn't even a plane on Why Didn't Voyager Visit Pluto? · · Score: 2

    That's lovely that "your" definition of a planet concerns "moons", but the astronomical community differs with you.
    Why do you think that having moons important to being a planet?